Antalya is a burgeoning Turkish city on the southern Mediterranean coast, an hour and change plane ride from Istanbul. Known for its terrific exchange rates and long warm summers, Antalya is a hot ex-pat site for UK’ers as well as a smattering of other vacationers from the US and Europe. Antalya is a terrific city [...]
Antalya is a city by the sea on the south coastline of Turkey. It is also Turkey’s fastest growing city and home to a ever growing ex-pat population. To it’s credit it boasts several Starbucks. You definitely know when a city has arrived by the entrance of the almighty Starbucks, a slice of Americana for wayward travelers. [...]
Cappadocia is a mystery wrapped in a puzzle smothered with confusion. The region is so rich with wonder and amazing sites both man and mother nature created, you could easily spend a week here and not run out of awe. You can reach this magical paradise by bus from Istanbul (12-14 hrs) or simply fly [...]
A comfortable 4 hour bus ride south of Istanbul on the Turkish Mediterranean sits a very famous symbol of Modern Turkey, the WWI battle site of Galipoli. If you don’t know much as WWI, you are not alone. During this time, the Ottoman Empire was essentially an enemy, siding with the Germans. The peninsula of Galipoli represented [...]
Turkey should definitely be on your bucket list, if not for the jewel of Istanbul then the crystal clear waters of the Aegean sea or the phallic shaped rocks of Cappadocia. Yes, Turkey is a Muslim country but one of the most progressive around, last I heard the president was trying to ban women from wearing head [...]
The Blue Mosque, or Sultan Ahmed Mosque is perhaps the most famous landmark in Istanbul. It’s 400th birthday will occur in and around 2016. It’s called the Blue Mosque, not because its partial to melancholy but for the thousands of blue hand painted tiles adorning it’s walls. The Blue Mosque is an actual working mosque [...]
While Turkey has not produced the most witty of road signs, I found that the school signs were strange to say the very least. Here is a small collection plus a couple other weird but funny road signs thrown in for measure.
Since embarking on my mission of an RTW trip, I have taken heap loads of pictures and since of the greatest pleasures on the road is taking pictures, I have plenty of me. Most Solo traveler pictures consist of a high angle shot to ensure your head is in the magestic background you are trying [...]
Among the many fabulous sites of Cappadocia are the Fairy Chimneys. These strange, nature-made rock formations dot the Cappadocian valley for miles. They were formed by lava flows that covered the land while a little earth, wind, and fire (not the musical group popular in the 70′s), did the rest. The largest cluster of these [...]
Please do not adjust your computer screen, objects appear larger than they actually are…ok, you got me, those suckers are huge and they are everywhere sprouting out of the earth like phallic mushrooms. Welcome to Love Valley in Kapadokya ( we non-Turkish write it: Capadocia) Standing erect between the Goreme open air museum and the [...]
